Hypnosis and Performance Enhancement (FSCH)
Organization: The Florida Society of Clinical Hypnosis
Website: https://www.fsch.org/workshops
Event Title: “Hypnosis and Performance Enhancement”
Agenda: Workshop_Schedule
Dates: 11/07/2026 – 11/08/2026
Location: Virtual workshop
CE: 12
Contact : Marie Wilson, Administrator mariefsch@aol.com
Description: If your clients are trying to get better at something — athletes, performers, writers, students, executives, or anyone trying to find real balance between work and life — you’ve likely seen how closely their mental state and their performance are tied together. Anxiety, frustration, low mood, and burnout aren’t separate from performance struggles — they’re often woven into the same experience, showing up at exactly the moments performance is most on the line. Research shows depression affects 6–34% of high-level athletes, with anxiety and burnout especially common during transitions, injuries, or high-pressure events. Awareness of this connection has grown, but many clinicians still lack concrete tools to work with it directly.
In the spirit of “skills, not pills” (Dr. Michael Yapko), this workshop gives clinicians who use hypnosis a set of hypnotically informed strategies for drawing out clients’ best performance — on stage, on the playing field, or in the office — while working directly with the mental health dynamics woven into that process.
Learning Objectives:
- Describe at least 3 examples of how hypnotic techniques have been used to enhance performance. Examples will be drawn from sports, performing arts or workplace settings.
- State at least 3 key components to a process-oriented approach to performance enhancement.
- Define performance psychology and give 3 representative examples of cases that might benefit from the guidance of a performance psychologist/therapist.
- Give at least 5 examples of improvement targets that clients might want to work on.
- Define a moment of “Pause-itivity” and its role in the process of performance enhancement.
- Describe at least three ways to experience mindfulness in the process of performance enhancement.
- Describe at least three ways to experience visualization in the process of performance enhancement.
- Give at least three examples of positive coaching/positive expectancies in the process of performance enhancement.
Speaker info: Dana Lebo, PhD Dana_Lebo__PhD_Bio